August, 2020

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It’s Never The Data Breach, It’s Always The Cover Up

Forrester IT

The obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony charges levied against Joseph Sullivan, former Uber CSO sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity community. CSO/CISOs rightfully wondered what these charges mean in terms of their own culpability for decisions made on the job. CSOs and CISOs handle sensitive data, make difficult decisions, and consider their responsibility […].

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SCCM CMPivot Query Patches Installed in Last 90 Days | ConfigMgr

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Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s find out a list of devices that are SCCM CMPivot Query Patches Installed in last 90 Days. The ConfigMgr CMPivot provides real-time data based on fast channel architecture. Configuration Manager CMPivot tool allows us to quickly assess the state of devices.

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Security in the 'new normal': Passwordless is the way forward

Tech Republic Security

Moving on from passwords to strong authentication and adaptive access policies is key to improving security without hurting productivity, especially given the increase in remote working.

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5 Analytics Mistakes You Need to Avoid

Information Week

Don't let mistakes drag your enterprise into analytics disappointment. Catch these common errors before they can hurt your organization's bottom line.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Workspaces

Information Technology Zone Submitted Articles

Artificial intelligence will change everything - even big office real estate

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Apple blocks Facebook update that called out App Store ‘tax’

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Apple blocked Facebook from informing users that Apple would collect 30 percent of in-app purchases made through a planned new feature, Facebook tells Reuters. Apple said the update violated an App Store rule that doesn’t let developers show “irrelevant” information to users. The feature lets Facebook users buy tickets for online events directly through the app.

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SCCM Secondary Site Maintenance Tasks | List | ConfigMgr | SQL Query

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Well, SCCM secondary site maintenance tasks are not discussed much. I thought of covering a very high-level view of predefined maintenance tasks for a Configuration Manager secondary site server. The predefined maintenance tasks are the clean-up tasks that help ConfigMgr DB to remove unwanted or obsolete data from the SQL Database.

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Report: Two new encryption standards will soon sweep away security controls

Tech Republic Security

Security professionals must act before TLS 1.3 and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) are implemented or they won't be able to analyze network traffic and detect cyberthreats, warns Forrester Research.

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Addressing AI Bias Head-On: It's a Human Job

Information Week

Researchers working directly with machine learning models are tasked with the challenge of minimizing cases of unjust bias.

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Portland’s Powell’s Books says it ‘must take a stand’ and will stop selling books through Amazon

GeekWire

Powell’s Books in Portland. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Powell’s Books , the venerable independent bookstore in Portland, has had enough with Amazon and will no longer sell books through the tech giant’s marketplace. In a letter to the store’s community of customers on Wednesday, Powell’s owner and CEO Emily Powell said that she was taking the stand to mark Independent Bookstore Day, which falls on Saturday. “For too long, we have watched the detrimenta

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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This giant glowing orb is the world’s first floating Apple Store

The Verge

Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images. Apple’s worldwide retail network may be struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the company from indulging in its penchant for pricey-looking, unique, and outlandish exterior design. The iPhone maker’s newest retail location, located in Singapore on the city-state’s waterfront and known officially as Apple Marina Bay Sands, can claim a world’s first title: it’s the only Apple retail shop on the planet that floats on water.

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Incredible Fossil Shows a Sea Monster in the Belly of an Even Bigger Sea Monster

Gizmodo

As the Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn once said, “There’s always a bigger fish.” Or in the case of the Triassic Period, there’s always a bigger aquatic reptile, as this incredible fossil demonstrates. Read more.

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SCCM Primary Server Upgrade to 2006 | ConfigMgr | Guide | Step by Step

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Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Microsoft released the latest version of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager 2006 opt-in version (fast ring). This step by step guide provides all the details that you require to perform SCCM Primary Server Upgrade to 2006. New Features of ConfigMgr 2006 production version (a.k.a WFH Release) available here.

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Microsoft says the pandemic has changed the future of cybersecurity in these five ways

Tech Republic Security

A new report from Microsoft suggests that cloud-based technologies and Zero Trust architecture will become mainstays of businesses' cybersecurity investments going forward.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Android-powered 5G BlackBerry phone with physical keyboard is coming in 2021

TechSpot

The iconic BlackBerry brand is getting yet another lease on life. OnwardMobility, a startup created to deliver comprehensive, secure mobile device solutions to government, enterprise and business clients has licensed the rights to develop, engineer and bring a new BlackBerry mobile device to market next year.

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Google buys more land in Kirkland as its Seattle-area workforce nears 6,000 employees

GeekWire

Google owns more than 400,000 square feet of office space at the new Kirkland Urban mixed use development in the Seattle region. (Ryan Properties Photos). Google continues to grow its Seattle-area footprint despite the ongoing pandemic. The tech giant just finalized its purchase of the Kirkland Urban East plot, a Google spokesperson confirmed. The company last year bought about 400,000 square feet of office space across the North and Central buildings at Kirkland Urban , a new development in Kir

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How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life

The Verge

AI renditions of Roman emperors Augustus (left) and Maximinus Thrax (right) with their statues. | Image by Daniel Voshart. Machine learning is a fantastic tool for renovating old photos and videos. So much so that it can even bring ancient statues to life, transforming the chipped stone busts of long-dead Roman emperors into photorealistic faces you could imagine walking past on the street.

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You Can Mark 'Fire Tornado' Off Your 2020 Apocalypse Bingo Card

Gizmodo

Apparently running out of cataclysmic events to throw at us this year, Mother Nature decided to reach deep into her bag of tricks and pull out a Biblical classic: swirling hellfire. Read more.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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SCCM Secondary Site Server Upgrade to 2006 Version | ConfigMgr

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Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn the process of the SCCM Secondary Site Server Upgrade to 2006 Version. I have already explained how to start the upgrade of the primary server to the 2006 version. Make sure you have all the prerequisites in place. Related Posts – How to Install Secondary server & How to FIX SCCM secondary server […].

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Industrial control system cybersecurity vulnerabilities are rising in 2020

Tech Republic Security

365 ICS vulnerabilities were disclosed in the first half of the year, 75% of them are high or critical on the CVSS scale, and nearly three-quarters can be exploited remotely, according to a report.

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RAM and SSD prices will soon plummet due to oversupply and weak demand

TechSpot

"Despite the traditional peak season for electronics sales and the release of Apple's new iPhones in 3Q20, the quarterly decline in NAND flash ASP will likely reach 10 percent, due to the client end's excess inventory under the impact of the pandemic," writes DRAMeXchange.

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Nonprofit takes D&D digital to help kids who struggle socially, and to study its own impact

GeekWire

Dungeons & Dragons dice come in odd shapes and sizes. (Brent Roraback Photo). For Game to Grow , 2020 was going to be a year of opportunity. The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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WordPress founder claims Apple cut off updates to his completely free app because it wants 30 percent

The Verge

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. WordPress, the iOS app, lets you build and manage a website right from your iPhone or iPad. Separately, WordPress.com also happens to sell domain names. Now, WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg is accusing Apple of cutting off the ability to update that app — until or unless he adds in-app purchases so the most valuable company in the world can extract its 30 percent cut of the money.

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Death Valley Just Saw the Hottest Temperature Ever Reliably Recorded on Earth

Gizmodo

California had itself a weekend of rolling blackouts , freak thunderstorms, and a fire-induced tornado. But the state had to go and do one more wild thing: set the record for hottest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth. Read more.

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FIX SCCM Update Prerequisites Failed Issue | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s find out the fix for SCCM Update Prerequisites Failed Issue. As the heading indicates itself it’s about the new KB released “KB4560496” for ConfigMgr 2002. Introduction: I installed it in my test lab the day it was released and everything was going good.

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IBM finds vulnerability in IoT chips present in billions of devices

Tech Republic Security

Manufactured by Thales, the EHS8 module family has security flaws that could allow attackers to take total control over internet-connected industrial machines.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Over a hundred TSMC engineers have been poached by Chinese chip makers

TechSpot

Quanxin Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (QXIC) was founded in 2019, while Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (HSMC) was founded in 2017. Neither are producing competitive products yet, but both have received several billion dollars from the state to accelerate their development. They’re also both led by former TSMC executives.

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Former Amazon, Microsoft engineers raise $120K for Seattle cloud startup Cloudshim

GeekWire

A new startup out of Seattle called Cloudshim just raised $120,000 to help grow the company’s self-serve cloud management platform. Founded by two brothers who previously worked at Microsoft and Amazon — Lokesh Taneja and Vishal Taneja — Cloudshim aims to help companies manage cloud infrastructure services and track associated cloud costs. “Most competitor products have gone upmarket, tailoring their product around enterprise requirements,” said Lokesh Taneja. “This has l

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Epic to host a #FreeFortnite tournament with anti-Apple prizes

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Fortnite -maker Epic Games and Apple are currently embroiled in a public battle over Apple’s App Store policies, and in the latest move in the dispute, Epic has announced a Fortnite tournament taking place August 23rd where players can compete to win anti-Apple prizes. Last week, Epic added a new direct payment system to Fortnite in violation of Apple’s policies.

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Many 'Flu' Cases in Seattle This Winter Were Actually Covid-19, Study Finds

Gizmodo

The start of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. may have been earlier and far larger than official records indicate, according to a new study. Researchers found that a substantial portion of people, including children, in Seattle who were suspected of having the flu this past winter likely had covid-19 instead. It also… Read more.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.